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The market is moving towards edge computing, there’s no question about that. According to Gartner within the next four years 75% of data generated by enterprises will be processed at the edge, up from just 10% today; and Intel predicts more than 200 billion devices will be connected by 2020. But what’s the draw? Computing at the edge provides a technical advantage, which then drives business value. The move from centralized computing to distributing processing provides processing and storage in proximity to locations with specific computing demands and delivers three major benefits: decreased latency, reduced traffic, and scalability.

“The Edge” seems to be all anyone can talk about. The Financial Times calls it the future of computing. Carnegie Mellon University runs the Living Edge Lab to better understand how to use it in the real world. Forrester warns that with global telecom companies set to implement or expand edge computing and empower their 5G networks in 2019, it’s much bigger than just the Internet of Things (IoT). And Gartner’s Tom Bittman claims it will eat the cloud – and that “the time to have an edge strategy is very, very soon.”

We were excited to be platinum sponsors at Data Centre World London. It was great catching up with customers, partners, industry analysts and journalists from the UK and Europe as we continue our work with organizations across the globe.

Recently, RF Code’s CTO, Dr. Peter Vancorenland was published to Data Center Knowledge’s Industry Perspectives. The piece, titled “Real-Time Asset Management Key in Data Center Moves” highlights some of the common obstacles in a data center migration and how solutions that utilize real-time asset management can alleviate these problems.

This question is answered and explained in our recent article from DatacenterDynamics. CTO Peter Vancorenland recently wrote about the benefits and differences between Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and wired solutions in the data center.